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Remembering TJ

Clip: Season 2 Episode 4 | 4m 23s

While stationed on Hospital ship HSS Consolation, 21-year-old naval corpsman Tony Ybarra grew to rely on fellow corpsman TJ Wilkes to get through the gruelling long hours dealing with casualties from the front line. On the first hospital ship with a helipad, the wounded were airlifted from the battlefield within 15 minutes of injury.